Linux for iPhone May Open the Door to Android iPhone [IPhone]
Here you have it. Linux running on the iPhone. Yes, it's only the first port, but it's the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple's hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing. And while it is still limited and doen't have support for many things, this work opens the door to a much more interesting thing than just a character-based terminal: Google's Android running on the iPhone hardware.
Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but the mere fact that Google would be able to do this—and maybe not even Google directly, but someone else using Android's codebase—is a pretty big statement. I, for one, would love to see this happening, even while I personally think that Android is half-baked and most people will ignore it. For now. Read more...